A SLEEPING NAFDAC

I watched a film recently, titled ‘’valhesing’’, if you have seen this film, you would recall that Dragulia killed the good doctor when he ( the doctor) would not allow him to use the giant – his invention, for the Dragulia’s personal purpose of giving life to his offspring- vampires. Dragulia felt that with Igor, he would accomplish what the doctor had started, as time went by, they tried the invention on their own, but failed, and at a point Igor exclaimed “it seems like the good doctor took all the knowledge with him to the grave”. Today, I was going through some papers I had, and I came across one that had Dora Akinyuli on it, I could not help tears rolling down my cheek. I recalled some recent events.Mobile authentication: As a pharmacist, especially those in community practice, I am sure, you have at one time or the other been accused of stocking fake product, simply because of network failure. Sometimes, you discover that a particular network would not go through, but how do you want to convince a patient that it is/was network failure and not fake product. When Dora was at the helm of affairs at NAFDAC, I think there was no mobile authentication, but we had less fake product, we were confident that any product with NAFDAC number is genuine, and they truly were genuine, so most times patient do not even bother as long as the product has NAFDAC number.Too many generic: The rate at which new brands of drugs are coming into the Nigeria market is very alarming and calls for concern. The rate is so much that activities of Nafdac seems suspicious. From all sort of bitters to all kinds of flushers. If all these products pass through the proper process, I do not think the rate of new entrants would be this alarming. When Akinyuli was there, there was high level of sanity, even the ordinary man on the street felt it.Let us do a comparison: Today 29th of June 2015,I took a look at NAFDAC website, FDA and European medicine agency, see what I found;

European medicine Agency latest news
• Meeting highlights from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) 22-25 June 2015 published 26/06/2015
• EMA fast-tracks enzyme replacement therapy for lysosomal acid lipase deficiency. Published 26/06/2015
• First HDAC inhibitor for treatment of multiple myeloma recommended for approval in EU published 26/06/2015
I want you to look at the date of those publications, the contents of those headings and convince that NAFDAC under Paul Orhi is not sleeping. None of those NAFDAC ‘’latest’’ news is less than a month.
Conclusively,NAFDAC has lost that reputation that precedes it numbers, it has lost the confidence of the ordinary man on the street in consuming NAFDAC registered product, NAFDAC has become a shadow of its old self, NAFDAC has become passionless, rudderless and self-serving. Who would wake this sleeping agency, who would re-enforce labelling of agege bread, who would ensure we consume iodized salt, who will restore public confidence in NAFDAC, who…who…whooo!!!. It seems to me that the good pharmacist, Prof.Dora Akinyuli has taken all the passion, and selflessness with her to the grave, may God continue to rest her soul in Jesus name.

Paul orhi is not fit for that job, Dora’s shoe is too big for him to fill, let him resign already.@bright, what do you mean by tempting and not paying interns salary, we are talking of incompetence and you talking something else